Reading List
Introductory Reading List
If you're looking for a place to get started, this list may be good. Most works are relatively short.Marxian Economic Theory
- Wage-Labour and Capital(Marx/Engels)
- Value, Price, and Profit (Marx/Engels)
- Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution (Group of International Communists)
Criticism of Other Systems
- Critique of the Gotha Programme (Marx/Engels)
- The Only True Struggle against Fascism is the Struggle for Proletarian Revolution (ICP)
- Anarchy and Scientific Communism (Bukharin)
- The Lenin Legend (Mattick)
Material Analysis
- Imperialism and World Economy (Bukharin)
- The Failure of Capitalist Production (Kliman)
- The Peasant War in Germany (Engels)
Works I Own
Currently Reading:
Engels -- Anti-DuhringFinished
Marx and Engels
- Marx/Engels -- The Communist Manifesto
- Marx/Engels -- The German Ideology
- Marx/Engels -- Wage Labor and Capital
- Marx/Engels -- Value, Price, and Profit
- Marx/Engels -- Theses on Feuerbach
- Marx/Engels -- Capital, volume I
- Marx -- Critique of the Gotha Programme
- Marx -- Civil War in France
- Marx -- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
- Engels -- On the History of Early Christianity
- Engels -- The End of Classical German Philosophy
- Engels -- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
- Engels -- Principles of Communism
- Engels -- The Origin of Family, Private Property, and State
- Engels -- The Part Played by Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man
- Engels -- The Peasant War in Germany
Bolsheviks
- Lenin -- State and Revolution
- Lenin -- Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
- Bukharin -- Toward a Theory of the Imperialist State
- Bukharin -- The Russian Revolution and Its Significance
- Bukharin -- Anarchy and Scientific Communism
- Bukharin -- New Forms of World Crisis
- Bukharin -- Theory and Practice from the Standpoint of Dialectical Materialism
- Bukharin -- Imperialism and World Economy
- Kollontai -- Prostitution and Ways of Fighting It
- Trotsky -- Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism
Left-Communists
- Bordiga -- Auschwitz, or the Great Alibi
- Mattick -- What will I do when America goes to War?
- Mattick -- Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler
- Mattick -- Luxemburg versus Lenin
- Mattick -- The Lenin Legend
- Mattick -- Bolshevism and Stalinism
- Mattick -- Council Communism
- Mattick -- Otto Ruhle and the German Labor Movement
- Mattick -- Spontaneity and Organization
- Mattick -- Karl Korsch: His Contribution to Revolutionary Marxism
- Mattick -- Humanism and Socialism
- Mattick -- Marxism and New Physics
- Mattick -- Monopoly Capital
- Mattick -- Workers' Control
- Debord -- Society of the Spectacle
- Luxemburg -- Reform or Revolution?
- Luxemburg -- The National Question
- Luxemburg -- The Polish Question
- ICP -- The Only True Struggle against Fascism is the Struggle for Proletarian Revolution
- Group of International Communists -- Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution
Contemporary
- Kliman -- The Failure of Capitalist Production
Non-Scientific-Socialists
- Winstanley -- The True Leveler's Standard Advanced
- Kaczynski -- Unabomber Manifesto
- Weber -- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
To Read
- Marx/Engels -- The Poverty of Philosophy
- Marx/Engels -- The Holy Family
- Marx/Engels -- Capital, vol II
- Marx/Engels -- Capital, vol III
- Engels -- Germany: Revolution and Counter-Revolution
- Engels -- Condition of the Working Class in England
- Bukharin -- ABCs of Communism
- Lenin -- What is to be Done?
- Kollontai -- Selected Writings (Holt)
- Mattick -- Selected Writings (Roth)
- Pannekoek -- Workers' Councils
- Pannekoek -- Selected Writings, volume I (Sweeney)
- Factors of Race and Nation in Marxist Theory -- ICP
- The Italian Left and the Communist International -- ICP
- Dauve -- From Crisis to Communisation
- Winstanley -- The Law of Freedom
- Hegel -- Phenomenology of Spirit
- Myers -- History of the Great American Fortunes